Silicon Valley, its visionaries like Bill Gates and Steve Jobs, and the entire tech revolution may not have happened without the Cold War space race. President John F. Kennedy’s iconic 1962 speech, ...

People may know Artemis as NASA’s return-to-the-Moon program. However, it is much more than a rerun of Project Apollo. Amanda Laughead The Orion spacecraft (silver) and European Service Module (white) ...

Nearly 60 years ago, three Americans made history as the first humans to ever break free of Earth's orbit on their way toward the moon. And when they passed behind the moon to the side Earth never ...

Artemis II is capturing global attention—but it’s only the next stride in NASA’s accelerating campaign to return humans to the moon and beyond. Artemis II will mark the first time humans set out to ...

NASA's Artemis II SLS (Space Launch System) moon rocket with the Orion spacecraft slowly rolls back towards the Vehicle Assembly Building at the Kennedy Space Center, Wednesday, Feb. 25, 2026, in Cape ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA’s Apollo moonshots are a tough act to follow, even after all this time. As four astronauts prepare to embark on humanity’s first trip to the moon in more than half a ...

Decades ago, there was an Apollo Generation of children who came of age during the era of the lunar landing. NASA hopes to ...

Bill Harwood has been covering the U.S. space program full-time since 1984, first as Cape Canaveral bureau chief for United Press International and now as a consultant for CBS News. The crew is ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA's upcoming Artemis II mission marks humanity's first return to the moon in over 50 years, igniting comparisons with the historic Apollo program. This mission will ...